![]() The Point: Shirley: Jackson: Forts: Residence of the Governor: Church: Buccaneers: Myngs: Morgan: Earthquake of 1692: Spanish bell: Fire of 1703–4: Hurricane of 1722: Attempt on Cartagena, Ogle, Smollett: Rodney: Water-supply: Rodney’s Look-out: Fort Charles: Nelson’s Quarter-deck: Rodney’s victory over De Grasse: the Convoy: Prince William Henry: Lady Nugent: Gosse: Hill: Urgent Governors, Presidents of the Council, Speakers of the Assembly, Chief Justices, Attorney-Generals, Naval Commanders-in-chief at Jamaica, Agents for Jamaica in Great BritainĪboriginal inhabitants, Arawâks: physical features, language, beliefs, habitations, implements, name of Jamaica, other Arawâk names: Spanish occupation, hatos, towns, buildings, names: English possession, ancient monuments, buildings, slavery, politics, forts, religion, agriculture, education, printing, maps, parishes, counties, place-names, Jamaica overseas The Institute of Jamaica, some 1400 in number. Of information to visitors, but may be the means of stepsīeing taken to preserve old buildings and other monumentsĪ list of works consulted in the compilation of the notesĮmbodied in this volume would comprise almost all theīooks in the Jamaica section of the West India Library of The double purpose of evoking interest in the history of theĬolony in the minds of its inhabitants and proving a source It is hoped that the following notes may not only serve Jamaica,” and of descriptions of sites and monuments which Part from the writer’s contributions to the “Handbook of Parish and to add a few words of general history, taken in This it has been thought well to arrange them parish by Subject it was decided to reprint these articles. Which appeared from October 1909 till October 1914.Īt the suggestion of various persons interested in the Series of articles in the “West India Committee Circular”ĭealing with historic sites and monuments in Jamaica, In the meantime the present writer had commenced a Visites and ancient monuments and buildings in the West This list was publishedĪs a special supplement to the “Jamaica Gazette” onĭecemand in November 1912 it was reprintedĪs part of a report relating to the preservation of historic To prepare a list, parish by parish, of historic sites, buildingsĪnd monuments, stating in each case the nature of its Governor (Sir Sydney Olivier) and with the consent of theīoard of Governors of the Institute of Jamaica, undertook In Jamaica the present writer, at the request of the The various West Indian colonies, recommending them to Sympathised with the object of the West India CommitteeĪnd had forwarded their representations to the governors of Secretary of State for the Colonies (the Earl of Crewe) On November 24 he was able to state that the The West Indies, and stated that a letter on the subject hadīeen addressed by the West India Committee to the Colonial Need for the preservation of historic sites and buildings in The historical monuments in England, drew attention to the Of a Royal Commission to enumerate and report upon India Committee Circular,” commenting on the appointment In its issue of October 27, 1908, the Editor of the “West Records of certain historic sites in the colony. Volume entitled “Studies in Jamaica History,” giving the In the year 1900 the present writer published a small
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